“Win on Sunday sell on Monday” has been disappearing for a long while now throughout motorsport.
If manufacturers are looking for R&D for road cars, then maybe there needs to be either a new class in WRC or regulations for electric vehicles to compete at the top.
I remember growing up, watching WRC highlights and then seeing quite a few of those…[Read more]

The headline here then, surely, is that VW (and presumably other manufacturers as well) view their premium motorsport operations as net losses. i.e. they don’t return in additional sales, what they cost to run.

This perhaps is the real reason so many top line championships are struggling to attract manufacturers – motorsport just doesn’t sell…[Read more]

Following Audi’s shock announcement last week that they will pull out of the WEC at the end of this year, Volkswagen have followed with their own surprise announcement today that they will withdraw from the WRC at the end of 2016, meaning they have just one rally left in the championship.

Following Audi’s shock announcement last week that they will pull out of the WEC at the end of this year, Volkswagen have followed with their own surprise announcement today that they will withdraw from the WRC at the end of 2016, meaning they have just one rally left in the championship.

Volkswagen is calling time on its World Rally Championship effort having swept the series the last four years, winning the manufacturers’ title every time while Sebastien Ogier took the drivers’…[Read more]

So I missed this last time out in Argentina when Hayden Paddon claimed an incredible maiden win, but sadly things have gone rather wrong for him this weekend out in Portugal. A small mistake led to a rather unspectacular accident, but the hot car surrounded by dry bushes didn’t mix, and sadly the Hyundai went up in flames.

So I missed this last time out in Argentina when Hayden Paddon claimed an incredible maiden win, but sadly things have gone rather wrong for him this weekend out in Portugal. A small mistake led to a rather unspectacular accident, but the hot car surrounded by dry bushes didn’t mix, and sadly the Hyundai went up in flames.

Looks like quite a fun circuit, well suited to that type of touring car. I don’t know if the racing will be the best, given the tightness of the track, it should be a fun driver’s track. And there are some longish straights with heavy braking zones so there should be some passing.